With Bold Stand, Japan Opposition Wins a Landslide (Published 2009)

A Democratic Party official placed a rosette by the name of an elected party member in Tokyo.Credit...Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times TOKYO � Japan’s voters cast out the Liberal Democratic Party for only the second time in postwar history on Sunday, handing a landslide victory to a party that campaigned on a promise to reverse a generation-long economic decline and to redefine Tokyo’s relati

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Mr. Hatoyama, who is expected to assemble a government in two to three weeks, has spoken of the end of American-dominated globalization and of the need to reorient Japan toward Asia. His party’s campaign manifesto calls for an “equal partnership” with the United States and a “reconsidering

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